Cell phones kill bees!

[WN9HJW]

Cell Phones Caused Mysterious Worldwide Bee Deaths, Study Find (http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/05/13/cell-phones-caused-mysterious-worldwide-bee-deaths-study-finds/?test=latestnews)

Hey! You people who are leaving your cells phones under bee hives. Stop it! You're killing the bees!

[KA4DPO]

What about Killer Bees?

[WN9HJW]

What about Killer Bees?

They must have their own cell phones.

[NY3V]

QUOTE=NN4RH;2243517]Cell Phones Caused Mysterious Worldwide Bee Deaths, Study Find (http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/05/13/cell-phones-caused-mysterious-worldwide-bee-deaths-study-finds/?test=latestnews)

Hey! You people who are leaving your cells phones under bee hives. Stop it! You're killing the bees![/QUOTE]



We're Next! :eek:

[W5BIB]

to bee or not to bee

[KA7O]

What about Killer Bees?

TDMA vs CDMA - different tech.

[2E0OZI]

Of course its killing them! They, like everyone else are trying to keep up with the times and carryng a mobile phone, well thier tiny hearts give out under the strain. Of course that does eliminate those nuisance calls where there is a lot of buzzing....

[WW7F]

Thanks for the helpul hint,new uses for the cell phone,I tested that theory out and they DO kill not only bees, but hornets wasps,spiders, but dang, I gotta wait until my throwing arm heals up to hit them better,I can't throw stuff as hard as I used to;P 73,Michelle

[WA6MHZ]

They KILL SPIDERS????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We need all the Cellphones we can get here in CREST!!!! ASAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[NC5P]

Total nonsense. Bees are dying from insecticides. Monsanto, Ortho, etc. want to sidetrack the truth. Now just think that we eat that stuff they sprayed, unless you buy LPO through a coop or growers' market.

[2E0OZI]

Hey take a leaf out of my home countries book - import bigger spiders to eat the first lot of spiders. Yeah it never goes wrong....much......well nearly all of the time. Cane Toads being a case in point! Yeah Australia, one huge biological laboratory where we mix native and alien species for the fun of it!

[KA9VQF]

I’m guessing it’s the hand held cell phone they are talking about here, right?

The land where I took my bee hives after the city decided some little kid might get into them and I had to get rid of them has a cell tower on it. The bee hives are not more than 25 feet from the fence around the bottom of the tower.

The bees are doing fine.

[W5WPL]

What about Killer Bees?

What about hem
http://mansuedotcom.tripod.com/imgs/snl_killer_bees.jpg

[AD5MB]

heard the same thing about WiFi, with the added fact that the bees body is 1/4th wavelength at 2.4 ghz

[K2WH]

I don't have a cell phone so I guess that makes me an enviromentalist? Personally, I think the study is alot of BS.

Bees die because bees die.

K2WH

[N1JBS]

They KILL SPIDERS????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We need all the Cellphones we can get here in CREST!!!! ASAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You don't have a SPIDER PROBLEM- You have a LITTERBOX PROBLEM!!

[KI6DCB]

I don't have a cell phone so I guess that makes me an enviromentalist? Personally, I think the study is alot of BS.

Bees die because bees die.

K2WH

Shouldn't that be "Bee S"?

[WF7A]

Shouldn't that be "Bee S"?


*slaps forehead* I've been outpunned!

[K8ERV]

heard the same thing about WiFi, with the added fact that the bees body is 1/4th wavelength at 2.4 ghz

At 1.2" thats a BIG bee!

And of course "more research is needed".

TOM K8ERV Montrose Colo

[KB4QAA]

I’m guessing it’s the hand held cell phone they are talking about here, right?

The land where I took my bee hives after the city decided some little kid might get into them and I had to get rid of them has a cell tower on it. The bee hives are not more than 25 feet from the fence around the bottom of the tower.

The bees are doing fine.
The key is selecting the right calling plan and setting reasonable limits! No texting during dinner and no calls on school nights until after the honey production is done! :)

[AC0H]

At 1.2" thats a BIG bee!

And of course "more research is needed".

TOM K8ERV Montrose Colo

Of course!
Yet another taxpayer funded study.

I think I shall propose a study which will definitively tell us the cause of "permanent college student syndrome".

The cure is to boot the leaches out into the real world to get real jobs.

[WF7A]

The cure is to boot the leaches out into the real world to get real jobs.
"Personally, I liked the university. They gave us money and facilities, we didn't have to produce anything. You've never been out of college. You don't know what it's like out there! I've worked in the private sector. They expect results."

--Dr. Ray Stantz, Ghostbusters

[N3HQN]

Oh come on guys this is old news.... Don't any of you'ns listen to "Coast to Coast AM"? Ol' George has been bang'n on this for a few years now. And besides that. It ain't the cell fone deal, it's the little white trails I see from the back end of those jets I see fly'n in circles over my house.

[K0RGR]

Looks like Pat's weaving his way east on I-8. When I took that route back in January, I heard lots of traffic on 146.52 and 146.58 in Spanish, but didn't hear any callsigns in English or Spanish. There are lots of linked repeater systems between there and Albuquerque. I'll have to listen for him on HF while I'm changing oil in the lawn tractor this afternoon.

[KG6OPR]

Me Thinks A Beeheading Is In Order!:confused:

[W2ILP]

If it is true that bees are effected by microwave radiation from cell phones or cell phone repeaters..,.this is a serious subject and nothing to joke about.

As in all such matters...more research is needed...because what may be killing bees may be harming human on a larger scale....or may not. Some part of a bee may resonate with cell phone frequencies in a way that is unique to bees. Human anatomy may not be tuned to the bee killing frequencies.

w2ilp (Insects Loathe Phones) The female bees make the retired male bees do honey dos.

Two bees had a fight. One took vitamins. The other ate junk foods.
The Vitamin Bee Won.

[WN9HJW]

The study described in the article did not actually kill any bees. They claim to have observed some of the bees make some noise when the cell phone were on, and interpreted that a certain way.

No controls are described - e.g., would the bees have made those noises even without the cell phone underneath the hive? Maybe the bees were making noises just because they didn't like having these guys screwing around with their hive.

The cell phone in the study was placed directly underneath the bee hive. I doubt that there are very many cell phones that close to bee hives in real life. Suppose you add up the average field strength at an average beehive from all the cell phones and repeaters in the world, taking into account the distances and fields, etc., would that ever add up to even a fraction of the field strength of one cell phone directly under a beehive?

The article just comes across as a sloppy experiment probably intended as a "teaser"; i.e. producing an incomplete and questionable result just to entice more funding from their funding agency.


I have to wonder if far more bees are being killed by scientists investigating bees, than otherwise would die naturally.

[2E0OZI]

Those two bees that ILP talked about, the winner of the fight took on one of two flour eating insects, while the other cheered him on from the sidelines.

Well the bees was well thrashed in the first round, but it could have been far worse; he took on the lesser of two weevils!

[K8ERV]

he took on the lesser of two weevils!

I've just been outdid.

TOM K8ERV Montrose Colo

[W2ILP]

nn4rh

It was found about two years ago that bees were dying in large numbers. Entire bee hives were filled with dead bees. These were bees that were professionally bred to provide their services to blueberry farmers. The bees are needed in large numbers to pollinate berries and other fruits. I kid you not. Anyway the reason that the bees were dying was (and perhaps still is) unknown. There was a search to see if there could be a logical reason. What has changed in recent years? There are now more cell phones and repeaters being used every year. Could they be the reason for the deaths of millions of bees? I dunno...but this is the reason that some believe that the probable cause of bee deaths is cell phone related.

w2ilp (Insect Loss Problem)...might be reduced by retuning the bug's antennae.

[W6TMI]

The study described in the article did not actually kill any bees. They claim to have observed some of the bees make some noise when the cell phone were on, and interpreted that a certain way.

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